Intergalactic Summit

I am very new capsuleer pilot from the Vherokior tribe. I am the daughter of Vherokior Shamans from Eldulf III. Recently I have been visiting with people on the Summit and have found “interesting” reactions. I thought perhaps it would be good to explain some things about myself and the beliefs of my subtribe.

Mystic Sensualism is a celebration of the holiness of human experience and a belief that spirituality is integrated with the senses. Spiritual release and health occurs when we embrace the beauty of sensual experience. What we see, hear, feel, taste, emote; these senses are the gateway to the spirit realm and the door to spiritual fulfillment.

I was born to Bafre and Miann Aguila, Mystic Sensualist Shamans. Besides giving regular essence instruction, and performing voluvals, their task is to guide individual practitioners into a fuller awareness of the connection between sensual experience and spiritual fullness.

Of particular interest, of course, is how Mystic Sensualism applies to human sexuality. This is the area that has really motivated me to write this short article. At home with my subtribe, sexuality is quite open, honest, and balanced. Sexual repression is rare. There isn’t the shame associated with it is sometimes culturally engrained elsewhere. This is true in particular in the area of sexual orientation.

For the sake of illustration, think of our sexual orientation as falling within a continuum of sorts. Realize that this is for illustration and not to promote labeling. As a matter of fact, most humans move on this continuum throughout their lives depending on their experience, biochemical factors, age, etc. The outer ends represent complete hetero or homo sexual orientations; the middle line would represent a complete bisexual orientation.

Heterosexual|----------------------|----------------------|Homosexual

First, it is our teaching that almost no one resides at either end completely or perfectly in the middle. Almost all will find that they have a primary sexual orientation that falls somewhere on either side of the center. So, if you have a primary heterosexual orientation that does not mean that you cannot experience or appreciate some level of same sex sensual appreciation. Likewise if your primary orientation is Homosexual that does not mean that you cannot experience a level of opposite sex sensual appreciation. The mix depends on where you are on the continuum. The closer to the middle you are, the more you appreciate both. The closer to the ends you are, the more you gravitate to a single orientation. Life can change where you are as well.

Mystic Sensualists embrace both their primary orientation and the balance of its compliment. Heterosexuals in my home community are not afraid to admire and appreciate same sex erotic beauty. Likewise, those whose primary orientation is homosexual will acknowledge that from time to time they also appreciate opposite sex beauty and sexual attraction.

Examples:

My parents are strong on the side of a heterosexual orientation and they truly adore each other. However, they are not threatened when the other may comment on either a same or opposite sex attraction. They have both found great freedom even within their lifelong relationship.

I consider myself to possess a primary sexual orientation of heterosexual but am very close to the center of the continuum. What that means is that I readily notice and appreciate feminine sexual beauty. I hope to perhaps one day find a mate (muscular man with a sexy beard, hehe); a man who adores me like my father adores my mother. In the meantime, I find great pleasure in the admiration of sexual beauty in both genders. This makes some rather uncomfortable because I freely express it. I have had to apologize for speaking in perhaps too forward of ways at times. Those in my home community freely express this in compliments to others and such things are accepted and received as part of spiritual health.

What Mystic Sensualism isn’t:

Some may conclude that a community of Mystic Sensualists would be promiscuous. Actually the opposite is true. Our traditions regarding sexual consummation are actually very conservative, even prudish by some standards. Virginity is often kept for a long time into adulthood in my culture. Why is this so? For the healthy Mystic Sensualist, less is more. Sexual repression drives a man or a woman to view sexual satisfaction as only attainable if full physical intimacy is achieved. The Mystic Sensualist finds great satisfaction is the simplest of experiences; an erotic dance, a prolonged gaze at a beautiful body. Even to compliment the sexual beauty of another person gives the Mystic Sensualist an uplifting, positive, integrated spiritual experience.

Sexual repression:

Sexual repression occurs when fear drives a man or woman to deny who they are sexually. Who struggles with this? …Everyone to some extent, but certain groups more than others. O.K. I am going to catch it for this but here goes. Men tend to be more sexually repressed than women. Let me illustrate.

Heterosexual women usually are able to admire, compliment, acknowledge, and enjoy the sexual beauty of other women even though they are heterosexual in their primary orientation. Heterosexual women can spend hours tenderly brushing each other’s hair, complimenting each other and enjoying near eroticism with each other. Heterosexual women touch each other more, even cuddle. (continued below)

Interesting read! I'll have to ask some of the other Shaman-type folks about this and get some good conversation going.

This actually explains a few things. Thanks for posting it.

It explains a lot of things I'd like to set on fire.

I too wonder where this comes from. I would actually have believed that immortality and infomorphs would have made capsuleers less caring about the sex of their partners than baseliners usually do, but not to the point of doing the exact opposite of the majority. This does not make a lot of sense to me, which obviously means that I must be missing something.

I would suggest you do not judge capsuleer women in general by those individuals who feel it necessary to flaunt their sexual relations in front of the whole cluster.

Thank you; have a nice day.

Elsebeth

It seems rather silly to try and adjust something to take into account capsuleers (a fraction of the population) who happen to be women (a fraction of that population) who happen to attracted to other women (yet another fraction of the previous population) who actually comment on the IGS (and another fraction of the population.)

In reality that number must be rather miniscule. People only seem to make a fuss because the rest of the population either doesn't bother, or isn't able to speak here.

Not only that... who seriously cares about ratios and numbers of the matter?

Ms Aguila provides an interesting explanation. Valid or not, relevant or not, it's still quite well reasoned.

Dear Sisters,

I had had hoped that this post would not be a source of contention among you and I do hope that you will all be at peace with one another. Let me make a clarification or two.

1. The orientation continuum originated a long time ago among my people to describe how inherently spiritual people maintain sexual/spiritual balance under changing personal, social, and biological conditions.
2. Let me cite two names that are well known to Mystic Sensualitst but probably unknown to most capsuleers. The Orientation Continuum was first developed by Yesnik Derfla and expanded by Neilk Ztirf. These two Mystic sensualist first theorized the continuum to explain orientation across cultures among baseliners. You can read a little bit about it here.
3. That it happens to help explain capsuleer behaviors makes it particularly helpful here in this community.

The reason for posting this thread was to help promote understanding among capsuleers, not to spark arguments. I apologize if I have raised a contentious issue.

I am not sure it did help any.

A peculiar feature of capsuleer behaviours is that certain minorities are most outspoken in their private lives and most eager to public displays of both affection and resulting dramas when things go wrong. Also it seems that people most concerned about their own sexual practices are the ones most eager to use sexual slang as slurs. One should not generalize from that to capsuleers in general, as those who are not interested in publicizing their private life or concerned with juvenile insults are unlikely to speak up in either case.